The five members of the Ascenta team are joining Facebook's new Connectivity Lab, which is part of Facebook's bigger Internet.org effort to bring Internet to people who still don't have it in remote parts of the world..

As part of the announcement of the new lab, Facebook has been showing pictures and videos of a solar-powered drone. It looks a lot like the Zephyr, the world's longest-flying solar-powered drone, built by a U.K.-defense company called Qinetiq. Some of the Ascenta team worked on Zephyr, Facebook says, but a Facebook spokesperson confirmed to Business Insider that the drone pictured is actually a new design that the Ascenta team has been working on.

Facebook wants to use such solar-powered drones to float above rural areas for "months at a time" and beam Internet connectivity down.

Here's another shot of the drone designed by Facebook's Ascenta team.

Here's a video showing the drone in action and explaining Internet.org's plans: